Description
The once-unknown Ossa wine project from Tasmania made an unforgettable debut when its 2020 Pinot Noir won the Australian Pinot Noir Challenge in 2021, earning a 98-point rating from the Halliday Wine Companion.
While future vintages will incorporate fruit from their Belbrook Farm estate, the current release is a masterful blend of premium sites across the Coal River Valley, Derwent Valley, and Swansea on the East Coast.
Rich, plush fruit, a velvety, long-structured palate, and balanced acidity create an impressively complex wine. A rising star in Tasmanian Pinot Noir, this exceptional release promises graceful evolution over the next decade.
“Deep, bright red-purple colour, and a similarly bright, fresh and youthful aroma of dark cherry laced with spices and a fresh-herb note that could be from grape stems. The wine is brilliantly fresh and vital in the mouth, with intense black-cherry pinot fruit and a lacework of fine but persuasive tannins, then a long and harmonious carry. A smashing young pinot that drinks superbly now and should age extremely well too”. 96 points, Huon Hooke
“Pinot noir clones 777, 114 and D5V12 from Ossa’s East Coast estate, some whole berries and whole clusters, matured 11 months in larger French oak (15% new). Bright ruby with a magenta edge. Notes of red and dark cherries, wild strawberries and raspberry coulis cut with hints of undergrowth, fine spice, mountain herbs and wildflowers. A pure flow of plush fruit in the palate entry, plentiful in spice and light gamey notes with a tight, chalky tannin framework and pulsing mineral line. Finishes long, elegant and quite sweetly fruited.” 95 points, Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)
